, 4■ 1100.006.01M111106,- Around the World .. A digest of current news reported by the Jewish Telegraphic 4,6.7 A' THE JEWISH NEWS-5 Friday, May 12, 1950 Acting ZOD President The United States WASHINGTON—A bi-partisan group of representatives in- troduced a House resolution calling for a Presidential commission • Canada Urgent Needs of Israel TB Hospital, Clinics Outlined by Visiting Nurse In an informal session with a group of Detroit doctors, at the home of her hosts, Mr. and Mrs. William Hordes of Calvert Ave., Mrs. Z. Katznelson, head nurse of the Neven-On General TB Hospital at Bnei Brak, Israel, told of the need for expanding facilities for tubercular patients in Israel. Mr. Katznelson, who is in this country on a brief visit, to study hospital conditions and routines, told the doctors that there are 700 beds in Israel for TB• pa- tients but that the need has grown for more than 4,000 beds. "There is need for instruments and for binocular microscopes," Agency, the Israel Service of Information and the World Jewish Affairs News Service. of inquiry on Germany, identical to a measure entered in the Senate . . . The State Department was advised from Bucharest that Marcel Pohne, JTA correspondent in Bucharest, and Leonard Kirschner, Associated Press representative there, have been ex- pelled from the Foreign Correspondents Association in Romania because of their alleged "subversive activity as Anglo-American spies." Both are under arrest. NEW YORK—Most displaced persons- who entered this country as immigrants are "making goad Americans," Ruth Safran, public relations officer of the American office of the InternatiOnal Refu- gee Organization declared, - after a 60-day tour of 22 states, in which she surveyed 5,000 former DPs . • . "The near-sighted and intransigent campaign of the State Department and elements in the U. S. High CoMmissioner for Germany's office to thwart any responsible and objective review of occupation policy in the West- ern zone of Germany," was scored by Rabbi Irving Miller, president of the American Jewish Congress, at the AJC national executive meeting. LOS ANGELES—Six men have been charged with a new in- dictment for conspiracy to export arms and ammunition to Israel, through Mexico, in 1948, without a U. S. government license. PHILADELPHIA—A group of eight Philadelphia teen-agers were convicted of charges of hooliganism against a group of Jew- ish girls. The ringleader, aged 16, was sentenced- to the reforma- tory . . . Over 2,500 pieces of athletic equipment and bicycles were collected for Israel in a city-wide drive conducted by the Bnai Brith Organization. CHARLESTON, S. C.—Extensive plans are being formulated for a series of celebrations this fall, marking the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish community of Charleston. Cong. Beth Elohim was inaugurated in 1750. LAKE SUCCESS—The United Nations Human Rights- Com- mission adopted the principle of setting up a permanent inter- national body to handle complaints submitted by states and tentatively 'decided to include in the covenant of human rights a limitation of the right of appeal to ratifying governments. The Commission turned down proposals made by Jewish organizations to permit appeals by non-governmental bodies and by individuals. . . . The Commission has also postponed consideration until its next session of a Secretariat legal opinion that the multilateral system of minority rights established after World War I has ceased to exist. NEWARK—Governor Alfred Driscoll addressed a meeting marking formal presentation to Israel of 50 Scrolls of the Law, collected from synagogues throughout the state by the New Jersey region of Hapoel Hamizrachi, Ameos, DR. LOUIS KAZDAN Leon Kay, president of the Zionist Organization of Detroit, on Tuesday, on the eve of his departure for Israel, named Dr. Louis Kazden, fir•st vice-presi- dent, as acting president of the organization during his absence from this country. Mrs. Katznelson said. "Our fa- cilities need improvement. We hope to learn from American methods in order to fulfill the important task of caring for the ill and healing those who come to us with the dreaded tubercu- lar germ." The Joint Distribution Com- mittee is cooperating with the Neveh-On Hospital, especially in cases involving the children of new settlers, Mrs. Katznelson. stated. She expressed the hope that some assistance will be given to the Anti-TB League, the independent group which sponsors the hospital at Bnei Brak and six clinics. HEALTH JOY and PLAY in a Wholesome, Jewish Atmosphere at and Kinderwelt FARBAND CAMP Senate Restricts Ballot Bill to '50 The State Senate on May 3 passed Senator Charles S. Blon- dy's bill to authorize absentee voting privileges "to any quali- fied or registered elector who cannot attend the polls on ac- count of the tenets of his reli- gion." • The measure was amended to make it effective for 1950 only. If passed by the House, as is expected, it will make absentee ballots for this fall's primary election, which falls on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, avail- able to Orthodox Jews who might otherwise lose their franchise for that occasion. WINNIPEG — Terming the state of Israel one of the greatest potential customers of Canadian products, M. A. Gray of the The American Legion was or- provincial legislature asked the government of Manitoba to send ganized in Paris, France, in a trade delegation to Israel to take advantage of the Jewish 1919. state's growing market. ZeS6. A Capable Staff of 70 Two registered Nurses on Duty • Mature Counselors • Certified Red Cross Life Savers For I Cailmatiou nfor UN. 3-3626 Excellent Board of Health Rating • Specialists in Arts and Sports • Established 1928 NORMAN DRACHIER Director Israel JERUSALEM—The world-wide conference of Agudas Israel has been postponed to Dec. 12. The Agudah-sponsored World Rabbinical Council has been reorganized under the presidency of Rabbi I. Z. Melcer . Israel and Jordan army commanders will meet May 15 to resume plans for setting up joint posts along the southern border to prevent further infiltration and thievery . . . Minister of Justice Pinhas Rosen has informed the Knesset of the government's intention to introduce legislation abolishing the death penalty. TEL AVIV—A UN plane was forced down by an Israel fighter, after it was well beyond the established "air corridor" near Haifa. After his breach of regulations was registered at Lydda, the UN pilot was permitted to proceed to his destination, the Kalandia airport in Arab Jerusalem . . . Seventy-six per cent of the 355,108 immigrants who arrived in Israel between May, 1948, and the end of January, 1950, have been absorbed. Only 754 returned from immigrant camps to countries abroad ... An enthusiastic audience heard Leonard Bernstein, young American composer-conductor, conduct the Israel Philharmonic orchestra in the first performance of his work "The Age of Anxiety" . . . Three new moshavim were settled by immigrants from Yemen, Cyrenaica and Turkey this week • . French General Zionists will open a summer resort in - Israel for Jewish children from France and Belgium ... President Chaim Weizmann is permitted by his doctors to take short walks in his garden. The president, who was indisposed for several days, was reported fully recovered. FORD'S WINNING FRIENDS FASTER' THAN ANY OTHER CAR IN AMERICA! King George and Queen Elizabeth at a presentation party at Buckingham Palace . . Police measures were taken to prevent Sir Oswald Moseley and his fascist Union Movement from parad- ing through the East End of London last. Sunday. The ban on such parades has been extended to -July 2. MUNICH—Protests from all sections of German Jewry fol- lowed the second acquittal of Veit Harlan, producer of the anti- Semitic film "Jew . Suess." BUCHAREST—Three former members of the anti-Semitic Iron Guard have been sentenced to heavy prison terms by a Bucharest criminal court which convicted them of "savage ex- termination of Jews." HAMBURG—Two Jews who were sentenced to death by a British military court for attempting to blow up -a British troop transport were released on condition that they leave Germany for Israel within 24 hours. ATHENS—The Greek Government agreed to release five Jews Who were condemned to death and 21 Greek Jews imprisoned on a Greek island, providing that they renounce their citizenship and leave for Israel. Australia MELBOURNE—Anti-Semitic leaflets containing excerpts from the notorious "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and illustrations similar to those that appeared in the Nazi newspaper, Der Stuermer, have been circulated in coal fields in various parts of Australia. show P oNti CAR SALES Up 6 8.IX IN MICHIGAN Ifs really put together! And mighty easy on gas, 'too t" 'Drives like the big jobs-Cs Its the easiest handling car we park all day!" Europe LONDON—Members of the Israel legation were presented to And sles Egares prove itl i sale r etail sals, 1st ',Tenths of 1950 over 13t 3 3 inenths o f 1949 "Say, it sure is a honey! Wish it was miner "TEST DRIVE" THE FOR at your Ford Dealer's, today! THE FINE CAR in its field—from every angle. 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